Plotting Paths Through Digital Minefields

Plotting Paths Through Digital Minefields

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  plotting paths throughdigital minefields #CityLIS after hours seminar @dompates, senior educational technologist mon oct 7th, 2019
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  activity 1: howdo you feel about the future?
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  with a partner,try to think of an area of the human experience that remains completely untouched by digital technologies… activity 2: paired discussion
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  contents presentation: on the informationsociety and digitised educational environments activity 3 closing activity
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  on the informationsociety…
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  on the informationsociety…
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  …a society wherethe creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. its main drivers are digital information and communication technologies… wikipedia, oct 7th 2019 on the information society…
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  on the informationsociety… 1936 1962 1945 allimagescourtesyofwikipedia …the next medium, whatever it is—it may be the extension of consciousness—will include television as its content, not as its environment, and will transform television into an art form. a computer as a research and communication instrument could enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization, retrieve the individual's encyclopedic function and flip into a private line to speedily tailored data of a saleable kind.
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  manuel castells: theinformation age • the rise of the network society (1996) • the power of identity (1997) • end of millennium (1998) on the information society… By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678
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  ...describes the shiftfrom an industrial society to an informational society, which started in the 1970s. this network society is structured around networks instead of individual actors, and works through a constant flow of information through technology...argues that the 'network' is the defining feature that marks our current epoch. on the information society… By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information_Age:_Economy,_Society_and_Culture
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  ...maintains that theinformation age can "unleash the power of the mind", which would dramatically increase the productivity of individuals and lead to greater leisure, allowing individuals to achieve "greater spiritual depth and more environmental consciousness". such change would be positive, he argues, in that it would cause resource consumption to decrease. on the information society… By Jorge Gonzales - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57197678 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells
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  on the informationsociety… agricultural industrial digital industry 4.0
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  on the informationsociety… 1989 1994 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2006 2007 2010 2011 2013 2016 2018 Tim Berners- Lee invents World Wide Web Saw Timothy Leary speak on ‘cyberspace’ at USF Google formed Sent first email Bought first PC Napster launch Dotcom bubble First mobile phone First social network (‘Friends Reunited’) SQL Slammer Worm; coining of ‘Net Neutrality’ Started own blog First iPhone Started own YouTube channel Started on Twitter Arab Spring Launch of Wikileaks Started MA in Digital Media Edward Snowden revelations Finished MA; wrote dissertation on Internet openness Yahoo! hacks (1bn accounts); Brexit/Trump (Cambridge Analytica) China’s social credit system
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  on the informationsociety…
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  three major areasof study within ethics: • meta-ethics concerning the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions, and how their truth values (if any) can be determined • normative ethics concerning the practical means of determining a moral course of action • applied ethics concerning what a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific situation or a particular domain of action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics on the information society… ‘Socrates’ by Marie-Lan Nguyen (via Wikimedia, CC- BY)
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  on digitised educationalenvironments… learning analytics
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  on digitised educationalenvironments… intelligent campus
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  on digitised educationalenvironments… holographic projection
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  on digitised educationalenvironments… artificial intelligence (mozfest, oct 26, 27)
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  activity 3 1. groupdiscussion 2. (if time) find your own ethical conundrum and write a scenario to share with the room http://bit.ly/DP-DigitalEthics